JOMOX - M.Brane 11

Analog Membrane Modeling.

Two analog T-bridge oscillators become electronic membranes.
Why? Because they can be coupled.
And because their dampening can be controlled.

Then add a little noise, add a little envelope, and the brand new electronic percussion synthesizer of Jomox is ready.

But because this would have just been too simple, everything is storeable again and controllable by Midi.
You can use this small box either in a live setup driven by a hardware sequencer or in a production as very versatile synth in order to create incredible analog electronic percussions.

How does it work? (the impatients may scroll down for specs)

A T-Bridge oscillator is actually something like a band pass filter which is working close to the resonant frequency. Because it becomes an actual sine oscillator at perfect tune-up, you call the deviation of ideal resonance dampen. In this case, the oscillator decays in form of an attenuated vibration if it's exited - similar to a single membrane that is hit.

In the M.Brane 11 there are two of such T-OSC. The dampen can be either negative (as just described) or positive. Then it really becomes a steadily vibrating oscillator. The more negative the dampen is, the more the T-OSC becomes a filter with sharp q-factor (quality). This can be useful at e.g. snare drums or hi hat-ish sounds.

Looking at the drumskins of an acoustic drum, there are 2 membranes positioned that modulate and interact with each other by the coupling through pressure waves of the content air. That produces the typical sound of a drum. By resonance and counteractive interference new frequency bands and overtones create.

Similar to that the parameter Coupling works at the M.Brane11. Both, in the first place independently vibrating T-OSCs, can attenuate or gain the vibration of the partner by means of negative or positive coupling on either ways (1_2 and 2_1). With lightfingered tweaking you get these interesting membran-like dampened sounds, especially by cross-wise positive/negative coupling.

The values can be very close to another. Therefore it is a great advantage that the M.Brane allows for storing the parameters, because sometimes tiny value changes can cause great sound changes if the system is close to a chaotic state.

The M.Brane is definetely something for sound nerds - less for preset-twiddlers, as the manifold and sensitive modulation settings want to be explored and played with.

In Split Mode 2 both the T-OSCs can be played over the keyboard, which again causes creativity to rise.

The LFO can either modulate a choice of one T-OSC or both. It always restarts with the note trigger and works like an additional pitch envelope.
Two frequently asked questions may be pre-answered here: No, the LFO can not be midi clock syncronized, and: No, the LFO isn't very fast. Both things would absolutely make no sense in this product (percussion!) and are also for technical reasons not possible to realize.

In order to create snaredrum-like sounds, the M.Brane has a noise generator with an own envelope. A part of this signal is fed into the T-OSC to exite the "membrane" with the noise signal. The noise can be wether white noise or metal noise.

The length of noise decay and the decay of the resulting tone are controlled by two different envelopes that are commonly controlled by the parameter Decay.

Specifications Instrument Percussion Synthesizer Membrane Oscillators 2 T-OSC, each of tune and dampening adjustable, both couplings in either direction adjustable Presets 110 (10 User RAM, 100 FLASH) Sound Engine Fully analog with storeable parameters Envelopes 2 analog envelopes for membranes and noise that are controlled by one parameter (decay) Noise White Noise, Metal Noise with 65535 different noise pattern combinations Gate Trigger gate time 0.5ms-10ms, up to 4-times multi trigger possible LFO 8 wave forms: Saw +/-, Sine +/-, Tri +/-, Rect +/-, modulates the pitch of one or both the T-OSC, starts always syncronous to the note trigger and is pitch envelope at the same time Display LED 7 segment 3 digits Midi Midi In, Midi Out User Interface 1 data wheel, 1 potentiometer, 5 buttons, 16 LEDs for parameters and functions Outputs 1 mono out 1/4" RCA jack Output Level About 0dBu Input External analog trigger input, sensivity adjustable Power Supply External wall wart adapter 9V DC Weight Ca. 0.5 kg, 1.1 lbs. Size 145x155x35mm Mar 16, 2012 275 Jomox - Moonwind Analog Filter Tracker is a true analog stereo filter with built-in step sequencer, a fantastic sounding digital FX chip, two LFOs and envelope modulation. Everything is storable and controllable via M… More Mar 23, 2011 439 JOMOX - XBASE 999 Have you ever heard how 09 by 3 sounds? The XBase09 was a legend already but a little limited though. 3 instruments haven't been too small at all, but some situations may have stayed unexplored. For t… More Mar 23, 2011 313 JOMOX - XBASE 888 Hoping to continue the grand tradition of unique and intuitive analog instruments, while at the same time extending their capabilities using the latest technologies, we are proud to introduce the JoMo… More Sep 10, 2011 239 JOMOX - M.Brane 11 Analog Membrane Modeling.Two analog T-bridge oscillators become electronic membranes.Why? Because they can be coupled.And because their dampening can be controlled. Then add a little noise, add a litt… More Mar 23, 2011 315 JOMOX - MBase 11 Analog Bass Drum ModuleThe MBase11 can do only one thing, but it does it right:Phat kick drums!And it does this even better than in the past.The MBase11 is the logical follower of the MBase01 and offe… More Mar 23, 2011 410 JOMOX - T-RESONATOR T-Resonator Mk II is available The T-Resonator is now called Mark II.The power supply has been improved and uses an international universal 9 VoltsDC adapter. Noise and hum have been lowered.The adjus… More Facebook Most Read More from High End Tentacles Facebook Contact us About HET Price List You are here:   HomeProductsJomoxJOMOX - M.Brane 11 CSS Valid | XHTML Valid | Top Copyright © yougrids 2012 All rights reserverd. Custom Design by Youjoomla.com